Valentine's Day - looking good!This Valentine's Day, Tues Feb 14th is looking pretty good as far as love and lust and romance go. First of all, the Moon is in the romantic sign of Libra. The sign of the transiting Moon shows the mood of people in general, and this shows that romance, lo...

Knitting - scarves and blanketsI know, I haven't written a blog post for a while, but that's because I've been knitting! I taught myself how to knit last fall and have done quite a bit. I think I knit about 35 scarves since, to donate and as presents, and now am moving on to doing a bl...

The Dark of the Moon - January 23 - 26About 3.5 days before the New Moon we enter into a phase called The Dark of the Moon. This is the last phase of the lunar cycle - also called the Balsamic phase. This is when the Moon is seen as a small sliver in the sky and when her strength and ebb are at...

Magical Messages from the Fairies Oracle CardsI've only used regular Tarot cards for all of my life - the famous Waite Ryder cards and most notably the astrologically based ones by Liz Greene called The Mythic Tarot. They're excellent cards, but the Tarot in general can be quite depressing really. So I...

Numerology for 20172017 adds up to the number 1. To find the year number you just add all the numbers up, and keep reducing until you get a single digit. 2+0+1+7 = 10 1+0 = 1 So, 2017 is a 1 - the year of new beginnings! Finally! 2016 was a brutal year for so many people ...

Yule - Winter Solstice -Dec 21, 2016The Winter Solstice on Dec 21st, 2015 also called Yule, marks the time when the light starts to return as the days start to grow longer, The Sun is at its lowest declination in the sky on this day. It seemingly hovers there for a few days and then slowly ...

December Full Cold Moon Dec 13, 2016The Full Moon in December is historically called The Full Cold Moon (this originated with the Algonquin tribes) because this is when the nights are at their longest and darkest. The shortest day of the year is Dec 21, which is the Winter Solstice - also ca...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle from mirror.co.uk Apparently Prince Harry has a new girlfriend, and she is Canadian actress Meghan Markle. Is this a for ever kind of thing, or just a for now kind of thing? Meghan wa...